Reading the battle.... this is some really good stuff. Needs to be collected as an e-book or something.
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These black dwarves are showing a lot of potential... I wonder if...
A dark recipe came to Krlnkir Yrlvnt in his dreams:
Take one mare, belonging to an innocent little girl.
Feed this mare, each day for 340 days, cupcakes made from:
A cup of flour,
Human flesh,
Sugar, spice, and all that is nice,
The dark seed of a greater demon, portioned out to the total of one demonspawn,
A teaspoon of vanilla,
And rainbow juice.
A demonic foal will be born on the last day.
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When you request surrender from the kings direct subordinates, there is much less complaint. They fall down before you and beg mercy- as do most of the survivors. The wanderers and elder wizards mount a token resistance; you
throw them in the dungeons, to be tortured until further notice.You then turn to the surrendering forces. Of the nobility, you Accept their fealty; allow them to 'rule' their former lands as your puppets,
but plant the seed of corruption in their minds, tax them heavily, demand tribute in the form of slaves and warriors, outlaw the old faith, and force them to worship you. Of the common soldiers, you
Accept their fealty; add them to your armies.You learn that whilst most of the army marched here, a small garrison was sent to every town in the kingdom to bolster the local militia. If their 'rightful' lords return to the towns, they would probably surrender easily; otherwise, you will have to send forces to conquer/convince them to join. You will deal with the remaining towns by
Leaving them in the hands of their 'lords' (requires not killing all the nobles).Whilst you're at it, maybe you should do some work on the kingdom, now that it is all but yours. For example, you could
Expand the mines at Barrspring. Really dig deep. Like, HFS deep.we should reward our champion with more mental strength say +3 and more physical +3. As for our daughter, her mother and her should be brought to join you in your new place alongside any new consorts, forbid your consorts for killing each other or your daughter to do anything to their siblings so long as they are within -define capital here- boundrys or around you.
Our daughter will eventualy choose her own partners, but well not make her marry any she wouldnt want to. Any son's of the king should be killed -classic evil- or corrupted to gibbering monstrositys. we should get our current consort pregnant again as well, so our daughter has a sister like her, and will keep our current consort from getting jealous for attention. The unnamed guard weve been corrupting should be kept as a guardian to all our consorts and heirs. The unnamed black guard. when hes corrupted enought we could make him into a wraith type guardian.
Also: we should develop some kind of totem monoliths to be placed across the land, with these, we can use them as conduits to increase the flow of power from prayers, gathering magic and etc. it also means we can move evil around at our leisure from their natural sources and we can deposit some of our own power into the system if we need to store it somewere temporarily -ie if we need to take human form without killing everything in our presence from the magic pouring from everywere-
These should take the form of small shrines to us, with a strange lightning pole and a steel power trap beneath the main pyre, they should also have Sending Circles.